Check for contractions in strings

Kris Wong wongk at seapine.com
Mon Mar 31 11:52:01 UTC 2008


> I was actually going through the list of bugs in:
>
> http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/krazy/reports/kde-4.x/k
> develop/languages/index.html
>
> I'm not quiet sure why, but it was an easy patch to generate.
>
> --
> Samir
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Vladimir Prus
> <ghost at cs.msu.su> wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 March 2008 04:12:44 Samir Faci wrote:
> >  > Contractions in strings are sometimes hard to translate
> >
> >  Can you explain why?
> >
> >  Thanks,
> >  Volodya
> >
> >  _______________________________________________
> >  KDevelop-devel mailing list
> >  KDevelop-devel at kdevelop.org
> >  https://barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de/mailman/listinfo/kdevelop-devel
> >

As a general rule, it is not a good idea to use contractions in anything that is "published".  This would include the UI for software applications.

Kris Wong




More information about the KDevelop-devel mailing list